1910

1910 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1910; MCMX
Ab urbe condita	2663
Armenian calendar	1359; ԹՎ ՌՅԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6660
Bahá'í calendar	66–67
Balinese saka calendar	1831–1832
Bengali calendar	1317
Berber calendar	2860
British Regnal year	10 Edw. 7 – 1 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2454
Burmese calendar	1272
Byzantine calendar	7418–7419
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 4606 or 4546; — to —; 庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4607 or 4547
Coptic calendar	1626–1627
Discordian calendar	3076
Ethiopian calendar	1902–1903
Hebrew calendar	5670–5671
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1966–1967
- Shaka Samvat	1831–1832
- Kali Yuga	5010–5011
Holocene calendar	11910
Igbo calendar	910–911
Iranian calendar	1288–1289
Islamic calendar	1327–1329
Japanese calendar	Meiji 43; (明治４３年)
Javanese calendar	1839–1840
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4243
Minguo calendar	2 before ROC ; 民前2年
Nanakshahi calendar	442
Thai solar calendar	2452–2453
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 2036 or 1655 or 883; — to —; 阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 2037 or 1656 or 884

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century ; 20th century ; 21st century ;
Decades:	1890s ; 1900s ; 1910s ; 1920s ; 1930s ;
Years:	1907 ; 1908 ; 1909 ; 1910 ; 1911 ; 1912 ; 1913 ;

Last updated November 15, 2019

1910 ( MCMX ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium , the 10th year of the 20th century , and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value:

A common year is a calendar year with 365 days, as distinguished from a leap year, which has 366. More generally, a common year is one without intercalation. The Gregorian calendar,, employs both common years and leap years to keep the calendar aligned with the tropical year, which does not contain an exact number of days.

A common year starting on Saturday is any non-leap year that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is B. Examples include 1949, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1983, 1994, 2005, 2011 and 2022 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2017 and 2023 in the obsolete Julian calendar, see below for more. Any common year that starts on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; The only Friday the 13th in this common year occurs in May. Leap years starting on Friday share this characteristic.

Events

January

January 10 – 20 – The first aviation meeting to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles.
January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 355 days remain until the end of the year.

January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 345 days remain until the end of the year.

Aviation, or air transport, refers to the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as balloons and airships.

Halley's Comet's tail Comet-Halley's-tail-NASA-1986-b&w.jpg — Halley's Comet's tail

February

February 8 – William D. Boyce founds the Boy Scouts of America.
February 10 – Old Trafford opens to the public.
February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of Egypt, is assassinated.

February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 326 days remain until the end of the year.

William Dickson Boyce was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer. He was the founder of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the short-lived Lone Scouts of America (LSA). Born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, he acquired a love for the outdoors early in his life. After working as a schoolteacher and a coal miner, Boyce attended Wooster Academy in Ohio before moving to the Midwest and Canada. An astute businessman, Boyce successfully established several newspapers, such as The Commercial in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Lisbon Clipper in Lisbon, North Dakota. With his first wife, Mary Jane Beacom, he moved to Chicago to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions. There he established the Mutual Newspaper Publishing Company and the weekly Saturday Blade, which catered to a rural audience and was distributed by thousands of newspaper boys. With his novel employment of newsboys to boost newspaper sales, Boyce's namesake publishing company maintained a circulation of 500,000 copies per week by 1894. Boyce strongly supported worker rights, as demonstrated by his businesses' support of labor unions and his concern for his newsboys' well-being.

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is the largest scouting organization and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with about 2.3 million youth participants and about one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, about 110 million Americans participated in BSA programs at some time in their lives. BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.

March

March – An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's License #36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.^[1]
March 10 – Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang Dynasty, is now made illegal.
March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
March 27 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary kills 312.

March is the third month of the year and named after Mars in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 21 marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere's March. Birthday Number the letter "M".

The Albanian revolt of 1910 was a reaction to the new centralization policies of the Young Turk Ottoman government in Albania. It was the first of a series of major uprisings. Rebels were supported by the Kingdom of Serbia. New taxes levied in the early months of 1910 led to Isa Boletini's activity to convince Albanian leaders who had already been involved in a 1909 uprising to try another revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The Albanian attacks on the Ottomans in Priştine and Ferizovik, the killing of the Ottoman commander in İpek, and the insurgents' blocking of the railway to Skopje at the Kaçanik Pass led to the Ottoman government's declaration of martial law in the area.

March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 298 days remain until the end of the year.

April

April 20 – Comet Halley is visible from Earth (its next visit will be in 1986).

April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 255 days remain until the end of the year.

1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade. The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.

May

May 6: King George V Kinggeorgev1923.jpg — May 6: King George V

May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 12 – The second NAACP meeting is held in New York, New York.
May 18 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.
May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.

May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 239 days remain until the end of the year.

George V King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

June

June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram , departed from Christiania (now Oslo) without fanfare, and no announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole.^[2]
June 6 – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established. 6 June 1910, page 7, Middelburgsche Courant, Krantenbank, Zeeland
June 15 – British ship Terra Nova leaves London, on its way toward an Antarctic expedition.
June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.
June 25 – The ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.^[3]

July

July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August

August – The Pan-American Union is formed.
August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
August 22 – The Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty is signed (it is already null and void in 1965).
August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.
August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates, and the country's monarchy is abolished.

September

Centennial of Mexican independence with ceremonies overseen by Porfirio Díaz
September 1
- The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism (Sacrorum antistitum), to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
- Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the first Fifa World Club Championship club, is founded in Brazil by railwaymen.

October

October – Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
October 5 – 5 October 1910 revolution: The First Portuguese Republic is proclaimed in Lisbon; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
October 10 – Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded at Columbia University in New York, New York.
October 20 – The hull of RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.
October 23
- Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
- The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7–2, to win the 1910 World Series in Game 5 (Jack Coombs had been the winning pitcher in three of the Athletics' four wins).

November

November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.
November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
November 20 – The Mexican Revolution begins, when Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
November 22 – Revolt of the Lash at Rio de Janeiro: Mutineers in the Brazilian Navy, led by João Cândido Felisberto, seize control of the new dreadnought battleship Minas Geraes, and other ships whose guns are aimed at the city, as the crews demand improvements in their conditions (which are conceded on November 26 by the Brazilian government).
November 23 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

December

December – A form of pneumonic plague spreads through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.^[4]^[5]^[6]
December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

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The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.
Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.